Environmental, Health and Safety Coordinator

The Environmental, Health & Safety Coordinator
will provide direction and support necessary to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations and EHS standards to meet or exceed relevant internal and external environmental, health and safety standards in a manner consistent with sound business practices. The EHS Coordinator will also assist in directing the development, implementation and maintenance of comprehensive environmental, health and safety programs and promote continuous improvement.

Auditing, conducting gap analyses and determining/implementing corrective actions is an integral function for this position.

• Be a "trusted EHS advisor", for related programs, regulatory requirements, and activities for the company.
• Communicate EHS needs and results to the EHS&S Director and Plant Leadership.
• Maintain a collaborative partnership with all levels of Operations to execute company EHS programs and processes to ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements.
• Maintain liaison with Operations to ensure that EHS issues are identified, solutions coordinated and tracked to closure; engage with teams to ensure EHS roles, responsibilities and expectations are understood and followed by all personnel.
• Observes/implements and enforces all environmental, health, safety and security procedures.
• Organize safety initiatives and events in the facility to promote a culture of safety first.
• Take a lead role in administering Safety Committee(s) to help reduce the risk of workplace injuries and ensure compliance with applicable safety regulations.
• Improve and maintain our behavioral based safety program.
• Provide technical support and regulatory guidance for, but not limited to, the following programs: DOT, RCRA, SPCC, Haz Com, ERP, Respiratory Protection, Fall Protection, Confined Space, NFPA and Air Permit requirements.
• Identify safety hazards and recognize when safety conditions need improvement. Ability to work through and identify the root cause of any problem and communicate accordingly.

• Provide Safety Training to ensure that employees (both site specific and company-wide) receive required training, including but not limited to: RCRA, SPCC, Haz Com, ERP, Respiratory Protection, Fall Protection, Confined Space, and Air Permit requirements.
• Manage safety-training metrics to ensure compliance with respective programs.
• Deliver Environmental, Health, and Safety advice at all levels and to deliver localized training to staff as required.
• Create awareness and educate our employees by providing regular mentoring/coaching and through consistent sharing of success stories and best practices.

• Oversee the tracking and monitoring of EH&S performance metrics and assist in all EH&S reporting.
• Ensure logging of accidents, injuries, near misses, safety observations and audit finding information is completed in a timely manner; maintain company EH&S KPIs.
• Analyze EHS metrics and trends to provide proposed action plans for continual improvement.
• Provide detailed reports and develop safety procedures.

• Approximately 40-60% of the role will be on-site interfacing with the workforce demonstrating safety leadership and providing the workforce with on-going safety coaching through recognition of risk accepting behaviors, erosion of standards, and depth of penetration of safety initiatives.
• Lead efforts to reduce hazardous waste generation and source reduction.
• Work with operations to perform hazard (Risk) assessments and evaluations; implement risk reduction/mitigation strategies as appropriate and approve hot work permits.
• Communication of incidents, advise and consult on care management. Lead or support investigations of EH&S incidents, the analysis of root cause(s), support/track the implementation of effective corrective actions, and prepare communications to share the lessons learned from such events across the company
• Collaborate with the EHS Manager to leverage global safety and environmental best practices.
• Any and all other duties and tasks assigned.

• Plan and implement safety policies and…